As he prepared for 20 weeks of chemotherapy, the 25-year-old, from Glasgow, took to Twitter to appeal to people to create a #chemoselfie using his face, and he was overwhelmed with the creative responses.

Mr McHenry has had to put his first feature film Zombie Musical on hold while he undergoes treatment for osteosarcoma, but the Vine community even stepped up to help him with a crowd-sourcing appeal raising at least $10,000 (£6,200) to help him while he is unable to work.

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‘Before Vine, none of us had met,’ one of the fundraisers wrote. ‘Vine has been a life-changer for many of us, and we’d like to show our support to Ryan as he goes through chemotherapy.’

Mr McHenry, who recently posted the 20th instalment of his Gosling series, said such acts inspired him to keep on fighting.